Garment hanger



1929. J. w. ROBINSON v N 1,723,080

GARMENT HANGER Filed Dec. 30, 1927 INVENTOR.

ATTORNEY.

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Patented Aug. 6, 1929.

PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN W. ROBINSON, OF LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS.

GARMENT HANGER.

Application filed December 30, 1927. Serial No. 243,695.

This invention relates LO a garment hanger and has for its object to provide a simple, eflicient and inexpensive garment hanger capable of being suspended from clotheshooks or other supporting devices and of being secured in fixed relation thereto.

The particular features of the invention will be pointed out in the claims at the end of this specification.

Fig. 1 represents in side elevation a garment hanger embodying this invention and showing the same suspended from a clothes hook;

Fig. Fig. 1;

Fig. 8, a section on the line 33, Fig. 2, looking toward the left;

Fig. 4, a side elevation of a modified form of hanger;

Fig. 5, cross section on the line 55, Fig. 4, and

Fig. 6, a cross section of another modified form of hanger.

In Figs. 1 to 3 is illustrated a simple and inexpensive construction of garment hanger embodying this invention, in whlch 1O represents the garment-supporting member; 12,. the suspending member; and 13 the bear ing member.

The supporting member may and preferably will be made of a substantially flat and relatively thin bar of metal, preferably steel, which has its rear end inserted into a vertically arranged slot in a substantially triangular shaped piece, preferably of metal, whose upper surface may be flat or as is preferred may be curved as represented in Fig. 3. The substantially triangular plece constitutes the bearing member 13 of the hanger shown 111 Fig. 1.

The metal bar 10 has attached to it near its rear end, the suspending member 12, preferably made as a chain having substantially flat links, one end of the link chain being engaged with a hook 15 which isprefoi'ably formed by bending one end of a piece of wire 16 passed through a slot 17 in tl e metal bar 10, said wire having its other end bent to form a hook 18 on the opposite side of the bar 10 with which another link in the chain may be engaged after the manner represented in Fig. 6. The wire 16 may be spot welded 2, a plan of the hanger shown in holders for trousers,

commonly used and well known and not hereinshown.

In Figs. 1 and 5, is shown a garment hangersimilar to Fig. 1 in so far as the suspending and bearing members are concerned, but having a different construction of supporting member, to wit: a tubular member 19 having on its underside a longitudinally extended slit or slot 22 into which a series of rings 23 may be slipped from the outer end of the tubular member, said rings having guideways 24 into which the side walls of the slit or slot 22 are extended to attach the rings to the tubular member.

In Fig. 6 is shown a modified construction of bearing member, which consists of a strip 25 of metal bent to angular bearing member and having arms 26 extended down on opposite sides of the supporting bar 10 and spot welded or otherwise secured thereto.

The garment hanger above described is capable of being used with a supporting device projecting laterally from an upright member.

In the present instance the supporting device is represented in Fig. 1 as a clothes hook 3 having a relatively long upper arm 81 and a shorter lower arm 32, and such as is com monly used in closets for supporting garments.

The upright member hereinshown is the rear wall of a closet and is represented by the line 33 and said rear wall has secured to it the usual piece of wood 34 to which the hook is secured by screws 35 or other suitable fastening devices.

In operation, the garment hanger may be suspended from an arm of the hook or sup porting device, and in Fig. 1, the garment hanger is shown as suspended from the short er lower arm 82 by the link chain 12, which or recesses 20 for the recepform the substantially tr has one end engaged with one of the hooks as 15 and has its tree portion passed over the shorter arm 32 and engaged with the other hook 18 after the supporting bar or member 10 of the garment lranger has been 'elevatedv so as to bring the bearing member 1 3 into -engagement with the hook 30.

By reference to 1 it will be seenthat the garment supporting member 10 is practi Cally pivotally supported between its ends the link chain, and when the ordinary gar ment hangers with the garments thereonare engaged with the supporting member 10, the Weightof-thegarmentsservesto turn the portion-ef the supporting member -1 '0in *IEron-t oi the chain 12 downward and the shorter rear portion -upwardly until the bearing *member a 13 is engaged with the hook, whereupon the swpporti rrg member 10 bee'omes toai'l intents and purposes rigid with'respe'ctto the up-right member, and located below separated I from the ho'ok or supporting device If'd'esired, the garment hanger can "be suspended from the upper long arm 31 0i the hookshown in Fig. '1.

It will be observed hat by means of-thel nrk chain 'or other flex ible member ?passed over the supporting device, the garment hanger can be arsed in "those "situations in which the srrpp'orting device is located-below and in close proXimi-ty to anoverhead structuresuoh as-a shelf, not shown, which extends oatwa'rdiy to er beyond the garment h anger.

The garment hanger may be used with other fiormsni upri'ghtmenrbersth'an th'ewall 83 of a 'closetpa's, for instance, hat 'ees or stands 'commonly 'used in offices and like places and not heremshown, :and which are commonly provided with double arm hooks shown inifiig. land-also withsinglean'm hooks shown in Fig-4.

Furthermere, he garment hanger can be used with other .ifiorms er supp orting devices,

as, for instance, with straight wooden or other pegs and even with nails.

It is preferred to employ the link chain as the suspending member, as different links may be-engage'd'wi-th the hook 18 on the supporting member 1 0 to enable the garment hanger to be adjusted with relation to the supporting device over which the chain is passed.

Nhile it is preferred to use a link chain as the suspending member, it is not desired to limit the invention in this respect.

So also it is not desired to limit the bearinganember *to the particular construction shown.

is-claimed is:

'1. A garment hanger comprising substantially fiat b ar provided between its ends with a hook, a chain having one :endattached to said bar and having its liree end capableot being 'passed overasu pporting'device and-ere gaged with the hook on said bar, =to suspend sa 'd bar below said supporting device, and a bearing member attached to the rear end-0 f said bar and arranged to project -upward ly above said flat bar and engage said supporting device.

2. A garment hanger comprising a garment-supporting member, a bearing member attached to said supporting member near its rearend and extended upwardly above said supporting member, and a device opera' tively connected with said garment-supporting member to form a loop for engaging a hook from which-s aid ar-merrt hanger is sup p orted and against whose under surtaee the hearing member is "forced arpwardly by the weight of the -'garments hung *upon said suppenting member.

In testimony whereof, I 'have signed my name to thi's speoi fication.

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